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Old Dec 4, 2011 | 4:43 am
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ian001
 
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Originally Posted by BA304
Out of LGW you're probably right, Globaliser, but out of LHR Virgin's market is no different to that of BA.
As well as the strong brand loyalty, there is the size of London O&D market. If you take the long haul O&D traffic of LH group's main hubs (FRA, MUC, VIE, BRU, ZRH), it still comes to nowhere near that of London.

However, the AEA traffic numbers do point to VS losing market share. Year on year VS capacity is up, but passenger numbers are marginally down (obviously last year was a big year for disruption at BA and the industry in general and that has an impact on year on year comparisons).

http://files.aea.be/News/PR/PRTU11-10.pdf
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